Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High PlainsBig Earth Publishing, 1998 - 127 páginas In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appreciation of, one of the most ignored and misunderstood areas of our vast American landscape. Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for, and understanding of the western grasslands, which give both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.Gilfillan's sense of the land encompasses the plants, wildflowers, and small creatures; the birds that he writes such wonderfully detailed descriptions about; the rivers, watering holes, and butteframed vistas; and, very importantly, the legacy of the Plains tribes of Native Americans who loved this land and fashioned myth and legend about it. By overlaying these myths onto the modern plains landscape, Gilfillan invokes a poignant sense of loss, yet we are also ennobled by the profound sense of the landscape that his vision imparts to us. Gilfillan is a tour guide like no other. His readers are given lovely, lingering descriptions of the overlooked and forgotten, the out-of-the-way and underfoot. |
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Locus Pocus Bighorns to the West | 1 |
Two Nights at Smeeth Lake | 7 |
A LittleKnown Renewal Rite from 1988 | 17 |
Blackfoot Country | 23 |
South Platte Points | 31 |
A Pair of Canyons | 47 |
Hidatsa Traces | 57 |
A Day Through the Bearpaws | 81 |
On Cherry Creek | 89 |
History Then Some | 101 |
Grand River Again | 107 |
A River a Range | 117 |
Términos y frases comunes
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